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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

WIP Wednesday:UFO Edition

As my Year of Finish winds down I'm hoping to move a few more UFOs to the DONE! column. First on my list is Christmas Strings for obvious reasons! 120 6.5" blocks are trimmed, sorted into 4 groups mixing up common fabrics and ready to layout. As you can see, I've experimented a bit with different layouts but have decided to use my favorite X layout once again. Can you spy Elsa? She continues to keep me company everywhere I am.

She LOVES to cuddle up in quilts. The other day Elsa and Tucker were doing a double Quilt Supervisor shift. They are acknowledging each other more - I'll call them casual friends for now.

I turned around a bit later to find her napping on a folded up quilt next to Mr. Juki. Tucker is all about fleece to cuddle up in... but Elsa goes for the nearest quilted item. Guess they won't be sleeping together until they can work that out!

I received 2 quilts back from Kathy at Stitch by Stitch last week and cannot wait to get these trimmed and apply the binding. It will be the perfect task to do over the holiday week while enjoying our family time.

Here is a peek at Kathy's beautiful work on Minnesota Hotdish...

and Four Patch & Friends. Aren't they gorgeous - so soft and feminine to add to the feel of these quilts. I'll wait until their finish posts to show you more!

I have followed you thru out this year.....the biggest, happiest hug and congrats to you for all you managed to get done. Ending those ufos and getting so many pretty quilts out of them. And these strings are just great.

Lovely WIP. Let me know if you run out of those Christmas scraps and need more. I seem to have a hard time coming up with a scrap plan with those. I think I might be getting my quilting spirit back in check.

The quilts you received back look beautiful and I can't wait to see them finished. What a beautiful view out your sewing room, sunshine on snow. The string quilt is going to be magnificent too. Your story of finishing UFOs in 2013 has been somewhat inspiring to me. I have finished three quilts that were tops before this year, I have given away two tops that I no longer wanted to finish into quilts to people who wanted them to finish, and I've also started and finished three quilts this year, and finished a king size quilt top that I'll send out to be quilted in the new year. Pretty happy with this since I work four days a week and have three kids under 10.